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THE TESTIMONIAL 

TO THE 

PHILADELPHIA TEXTILE SCHOOL. 



The subscriptions which the members in attendance at the 
Philadelphia Meeting placed in the hands of the Secretary, as 
Trustee, for the purpose of furnishing a testimonial to the 
Textile School of the Pennsylvania Museum and School of In- 
dustrial Art, were devoted to a bronze bust of GEORGE DRArER, 
of which the marble bust in the Town Hall at Hopedale, Massa- 
chusetts, by Cyrus Cobb, furnished the model for this bronze, 
which was founded by the Gorham Manufacturing Company of 
Providence. 

A base designed by a member of the Association on lines of 
the Ionic order, bears the following inscriptions : 

On the Front. 

A TESTIMONIAL TO THE 

PHILADELPHIA TEXTILE SCHOOL 

IN COMMEMORATION OF 

THE SIXTY-THIRD MEETING 

OF THE 

NEW ENGLAND COTTON MANUFACTURERS' ASSOCIATION 

OCTOBER, 1897 

On the Right. 

GEORGE DRAPER 
1817 1887 

On the Left. 

MECHANIC 

INVENTOR 

MANUFACTURER 

PUBLICIST 



Miscellaneous 
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The bronze rests on a Roman Doric column of Westerly pink- 
white granite, polished throughout, and bearing the seal of the 
New England Cotton Manufacturers' Association, made by 
Messrs. Kavanaugh Brothers, of Boston. 

This testimonial of the members of the Cotton Manufacturers' 
Association to the Philadelphia Textile School of the Pennsyl- 
vania Museum and School of Industrial Art, was presented on 
Saturday, April 16, in the auditorium of the Philadelphia Textile 
School, which had been decorated for the occasion with flags, 
flowers and palms. 

The audience was present in answer to the following invitation 
which had been sent to those who had entertained the Associa- 
tion during the Philadelphia Meeting, and also to members of 
the Association. 

The President and Trustees 

and the 

Associate Committee of Women 

of the 

Pennsylvania Museum and School of Industrial Art 

request the pleasure of your company 

Saturday, April Sixteenth, 1898, 

at 3 o'clock, 

at the 

School Building, Broad and Pine Streets, 

on the occasion of a presentation to the School, 

by the New England Cotton Manufacturers' Association, 

of a bust of George Draper, 

of Massachusetts. 

The New England Cotton Manufacturers' Association held 
its Fall Meeting in Philadelphia, in October, 1897, m order that 
its members might inspect the work of the SCHOOL OF INDUS- 
TRIAL Art. 

Its sessions were held in the Auditorium of the School, and 
on adjourning the Association adopted the following resolutions : 



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Resolved, That this Association has studied with the greatest interest 
the work of the Pennsylvania Museum and School of Industrial Art, 
including the Philadelphia Textile School, and desires to record in 
this way its high appreciation of the important service which this Insti- 
tution is rendering to the cause of American Industrial Development. 
We feel that among the agencies which it is the worthiest aim of such 
associations as ours to promote and support, Industrial Education is of 
the first importance, and we warmly commend the spirit in which this 
magnificent School is conducted and the methods which characterize 
its teaching. 

Resolved, That no better use can be made of public funds, or private 
munificence, or of the power that results from Association, than in the 
support of such institutions as the Pennsylvania Museum and School 
of Industrial Art. 

Desiring to leave with the School some memorial that would 
worthily and permanently testify to the interest and apprecia- 
tion, so well expressed in the above resolutions, the Association 
has caused to be executed and erected on a pedestal of polished 
granite, suitably inscribed, a bronze bust of the late GEORGE 
Draper, whose life and character as an ingenious inventor, 
a successful manufacturer, and a public-spirited and patriotic 
citizen, so well represent at once the ideals of the Association 
and the lessons for whose enforcement the School of Industrial 
Art exists. 

It is for the presentation and unveiling of this memorial, on 
the sixteenth of next month, that the enclosed invitation is 
issued. 

Broad and Pine Streets, 

Philadelphia, March 31, 1898. 

The meeting was called to order at 3 o'clock by Mr. WILLIAM 
PLATT PEPPER, Vice-President of the Pennsylvania Museum and 
School of Industrial Art, who stated the purpose of the gathering.* 

Professor L. VV. Miller, principal of the Textile School, 



*The address will be contained in full in the Transactions, as the copy has not 
been received in time for this meeting. 



read letters of regret from President RUSSELL W. EATON and 
Past President ARTHUR H. Lowe of Fitchburg, Mass. 

Mr. C. J. H. WOODBURY, Secretary of the New England 
Cotton Manufacturers' Association, made the following address 
of presentation : 

The Sixty-third Meeting of the New England Cotton Manu- 
facturers' Association at Philadelphia was an occasion unprece- 
dented in our history of over thirty years. The numerous 
attentions received at the hands of Philadelphians, and the 
contributions to our Transactions by some of your eminent 
citizens, rendered the meeting a memorable one ; and after the 
adjournment, an informal gathering of some of the members 
voiced the opinion that the remembrance of such an event, and 
the courtesies which graced the meeting, should not be allowed 
to pass by without a more permanent form of recognition than 
the resolutions of thanks. It was considered that this sentiment 
might be best expressed by a testimonial to the Philadelphia 
Textile School, at whose invitation the meeting took place in 
this city. 

This suggestion was presented to those who had been in at- 
tendance, and contributions were supplied for the purpose with- 
out further direction than that it would be preferable that the 
testimonial should be a work of art in bronze, representative of 
the donors, and in harmony with the purposes of this institution. 

The most careful consideration of all the possibilities and sug- 
gestions reverted to the adoption of the first thought that the 
bronze should portray some member of the Association whose 
career was a representative one of New England life in the cot- 
ton manufacture, and that one was a living force in the textile 
industry of America whose presence is as of yesterday. 

George Draper, of Hopedale, was an illustrious example of 
what this testimonial is meant to represent. In the line of an 
honorable ancestry denoting skill, industry, and integrity, he 
followed in the footsteps of his forefathers. His common school 
education was supplemented by home instruction in mathe- 



matics to an extent which was unusual at that day outside of 
college life. In early life he toiled in a cotton mill and mastered 
the processes of manufacture, and also the work of repairing and 
installing cotton machinery. 

While a young man he established the works which made 
Hopedale known wherever cotton is spun by power. The fer- 
tility of his mental resource is indicated by the fact that he 
received about one hundred patents, and beyond this his train- 
ing and talents imparted a thorough mastery of the subject which 
enabled him to give the final touch which transmuted many other 
ingenious devices from failure to success. He was not an inventor 
of the type which seeks to convert an ideality into concrete form ; 
he did not try to revolutionise old processes ; but he was an 
original constructor, making devices for the desired purposes of 
improving existing methods. 

His useful life work was indeed an answer to the apostrophe 
of Carlyle to Voltaire : 

" It is true that you swing the torch to burn old abuses, but where, 
O, where, have you wielded the hammer to build new reforms?" 

It is safe to say that the product of his works are in every 
cotton mill in America, and extensively used abroad, and his 
improvements constitute an essential feature in reducing cost or 
increasing production. 

In the administration of his extensive affairs he was prompt, 
honest, and just. Prosperity blessed, but did not change him. 
He was a yielding man — as long as he had his own way — hav- 
ing wisdom to plan and force to execute the affairs entrusted 
to him. 

A broader element of his nature of more permanent import- 
ance than his inventions, because in the progress of the art his 
inventions will be superseded by others, even as they took the 
place of what preceded them, was the ability in connection with 
the energetic exploitation of the product of his establishment, 
with which he advocated a keen analysis of the results from 
machines, and through this channel to increase the system and 



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efficiency of mill supervision. Men who were brought up in his 
shops were sought for positions of responsibility and trust in cot- 
ton manufacturing, and before this Association, and in his daily 
meeting with members in business, the trend of his finely or- 
ganized intellect was toward a higher standard of supervision 
and system in management, and the administration of the Amer- 
ican cotton industry is improved through his efforts. 

His active mind was not limited by his business, but reached 
out into public affairs, applying the same mental traits in em- 
bodying a purpose in the functions of government. Later in 
life the philosophic element of his nature became more promi- 
nent, particularly in political economy, in which he applied his 
power of analysis in application to every-day affairs. He mas- 
tered the principles of tariff and finance, and assimilated the 
problems so thoroughly that they became a part of his being to 
such an extent that he would replace conventional modes of 
expression by examples in terse phraseology peculiarly his own. 
He was especially active on matters pertaining to the establish- 
ment of the tariff on lines best adapted to the conditions of the 
American people. He founded the Home Market Club, and 
was its first president, and devoted himself to its purposes. The- 
endeavor has been made to indicate his biography in the in- 
scription, 

Mechanic. 

Inventor. 

Manufacturer. 

Publicist. 

Apart from the personality of the subject of the testimonial, 
we trust that you will accept it as representing in a slight meas- 
ure a grateful feeling on the part of the members of the New 
England Cotton Manufacturers' Association and their guests in 
attendance at the Sixty-third Meeting, and also the sentiment 
of appreciation of this great textile institution, in the hope that 
its work may continue in the instruction which it is giving to the 
rising generation, in order that the range and standard of Amer- 
ican textile manufacturing may continue to improve. 



Mr. CHARLES H. Harding of the Board of Trustees, ac- 
cepted the gift on the part of the Museum. 

Probably the first conscious function on the part of the human 
being is the acceptance of gifts ; it may be done awkwardly, but 
it is likely to be positive and without restraint. Most people 
hope that, sooner or later, with abundant practice, they may, 
if they live long enough, graciously receive even the smallest 
gifts. But you bring us, Mr. SECRETARY WOODBURY, a gift 
that is unique, and that will therefore fill a large historical place ; 
and proud as we are that you have chosen this our school as 
its resting place, I do most heartily accept it for our Board of 
Trustees, our Institution and the City of Philadelphia ; and I 
beg you to believe that there is nothing wanting in our appre- 
ciation, however we may lack in its gracious expression. 

That your Association should have been so impressed at your 
meeting here last October as to pass those resolutions, so care- 
fully and skilfully drawn, has been to us a matter of great grat- 
ification ; and that you select the work of this school, as the 
thing in Philadelphia to be honored by this remarkable memo- 
rial of your visit is an additional matter of pride. And if you 
shall go on, in the spirit of your resolution that specifies such a 
school to be a " matter of the first importance", to your own 
Association : and shall found, promote, or foster any such thor- 
oughly good and complete establishment in your own part of 
the country, we shall welcome it as an ally, rather than as a 
rival. Too long, indeed, was the Board of Trustees, this Fac- 
ulty, this Associate Committee of Women, engaged in a work 
that was practically solitary in the United States ; a work in 
which they have had all the struggle, all the weariness, all the 
uncertainty of future, that belongs to any great pioneer enter- 
prise. 

In another resolution, your Association declared " that to no 
more worthy object could there be devoted public funds, private 
munificence, or the power that comes from association " than 
the interests of such an institution. There is great keenness of 
discrimination in the order of association, for the ends in view, 
that has thus named the three great influences upon which alone 



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such work depends for support and success ; and it is right that 
the order should be " public funds, private munificence, and the 
power that comes from association". The work begun in 
a small way years ago, was, especially for the textile depart- 
ment, first the power that come from association; and then 
came the aid of private munificence. This building in which 
you find us to-day is largely ours, because of the handsome 
"private munificence" of one of Philadelphia's most successful 
and distinguished manufacturers, Mr. WILLIAM WEIGHTMAN. 
Everywhere you will find throughout the rooms here, gifts of 
machinery, models, and other applicances from " private munifi- 
cance". Of public funds the institution has had but a meager 
and uncertain share. But we hope the day is not far distant 
when all education shall be regarded alike ; that is, that the ele- 
mentary branches of every kind of education ought to be a 
charge upon the public funds, with higher education depending 
in a measure upon the same support, largely assisted, however, 
by private munificence and specific pursuit of following techni- 
cal education cared for by the " power that comes from associa- 
tion." 

You have chosen this school for the place of honor to which 
to entrust the care of this handsome bust of your distinguished 
. member ; and as I have said, you have hereby given a unique 
position to both. Some may think it is a far call from the 
Parthenon and Westminster Abbey to the halls of the school of 
Industrial Art. And I can imagine that hereafter people who 
go through those rooms, naming as they pass, portraits, 
pictures, and busts of musicians, poets, literati and warriors, may 
stop before this bust, asking " who is this, and what was he that 
I do not know or do not recall the face " ? It is a proud omen 
for the rising honor that belongs to the skilful man that minis- 
ters to the cheap,, beautiful, and plentiful supply of the second 
general need of the race (clothing, food being the first) that a 
hall is proud to receive this first of such monuments. And it is 
fitting that you should have chosen for this first erection, the 
bust of a man who represents specially the power of thought as 
applied to his industry. 



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Such a man, whose intentions and improvement constantly 
keep a thorn in the side of all manufacturing industry, by pre 
senting what compels the installatfon of new machinery and 
methods, is a most useful factor in the promoting of the two 
great ends so desirable in manufacturing, " increase of produc- 
tion and lessening of cost". 

In the days to come many a student, in passing by this bust, 
will take from it encouragement and stimulus in the thought that 
work well done for humanity in even these plain and peaceful 
lines taught in this school, will receive the like proud and fitting 
recognition, as does the life spent in devotion to literature, fine 
arts, statesmanship or war. In the name of our board and 
school, and our city, Mr. Secretary, I again heartily thank your 
Association for the distinguished mark of your kindly remem- 
brance, and your esteem you confer upon us to-day. 



ADDRESS BY COLONEL ALBERT CLARKE, 
Secretary of the Home Market Club of Boston. 

It is fitting that in the great manufacturing city of Philadel- 
phia there should be placed a permanent memorial of one of 
the great manufacturers of New England. It is suitable that 
here, where BENJAMIN FRANKLIN and MATTHEW Carey laid 
broad and deep the foundations of unexampled national pros- 
perity, there should come as a permanent guest the bronze 
presentment of one who profited by their teachings and did 
more than most others to disseminate them. Here this mute 
but speaking witness finds illustrious company in the invisible 
presence of Henry Charles Carey, Samuel Elder, Wm. D. 
Kelley and SAMUEL J. RANDALL, and in the visible presence 
of Henry Carey Baird, James M. Swank, Theodore C. 
Search, Charles Emory Smith and Charles Heber Clark, 
all of whom have long stood in the front ranks of the promoters 
and defenders of a national economic policy. 

George Draper was a good example of the fruitage of 
"Poor Richard's " maxims. He made his fortune and made 



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his mark. Born in Weston, Massachusetts, in 1817, and reared 
upon a farm, his college was the district school, and his athletic 
field the wood lot and the corn field. Having a mechanical 
turn at the age of fifteen, he took a position under his older 
brother in the weaving department of the cotton mill at North 
Uxbridge. He mastered every detail of the processes in all 
departments of the mill and was soon appointed overseer in one 
of the largest of the fine cotton mills of the country, at Three 
Rivers, Mass. There he made his first invention, which was of 
an improvement in a temple for weaving that had been invented 
by his father. 

In 1839, owing to a general depression in manufacturing 
business, caused by the progressive reduction in duties in 
Clay's Compromise Tariff, an illustration of the Latin proverb, 
facilis descensus averni est, he was thrown out of employment 
as were most of the skilled operators of New England. After 
looking vainly for work as an overseer or superintendent, and 
having consumed his small savings and incurred a debt of sev- 
eral hundred dollars, he finally courageously and gladly accepted 
a position as an operative in Lowell, at the remuneration of five 
dollars a week. This experience convinced him of the advan- 
tage to laboring men of a protective tariff, and he never ceased 
to study the subject and to impress his views upon his associates. 

Soon after the improved tariff of 1842 went into operation, 
he again became an overseer, the next year a designer, two 
years later superintendent of one of the mills of the Otis Com- 
pany at Ware, and soon manager of the entire concern. 

In 1853 he removed to Hopedale, which was his home during 
the remainder of his life, and in partnership with his brother 
laid the foundations of what has long been one of the largest 
cotton machinery manufactories in the world. Uninterrupted 
prosperity attended the business. Upon the retirement of his 
brother in 1868, he took into partnership his eldest son WILLIAM 
Franklin Draper, who had returned from the Civil War with 
the scars of two severe wounds, and with the rank of brigadier 
general, and who is now United States Ambassador to Italy ; 
later his other sons GEORGE A. and Eben S. became partners, 



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all of them emulating the example of their father in study, in 
industry, and in sterling business qualities. Subsequently two 
grandsons became partners, and recently the partnership has 
been changed to a corporation, admitting some of the long time 
competent and faithful employees. It is the proud boast of this 
establishment that it never had a labor difficulty, that its paper 
never went to protest, that it never had to take back or deduct 
from the price of a machine because of any defect in its con- 
struction, and that the inventions, of its members, or of others 
which it promoted, have reduced the cost to mankind by more 
than one-half. 

Among GEORGE DRAPER'S inventions were devices for self- 
acting temples, eveners for railways heads, parallel motions. for 
looms, self-lubricating bearings for spindles, and warpers for 
beaming yarn. The first great improvement in spindles was in- 
vented by J. Herbert Sawyer, of Lowell, in 1871. The next 
was by F. J. RABBETH, of Pawtucket, in 1878. These were the 
foundations for many further improvements by the DRAPERS 
until 1893, when General DRAPER, in an historical address at 
the Columbian Exposition in Chicago, summed up their eco- 
nomic value to the world, that is, their saving in the cost of 
production, as equivalent to more than fifty millions of dollars 
in ten years. 

Since then the company has added to its marvellous devices 
an automatic stop for looms when the warp thread breaks, and 
an automatic shift of the bobbin when the thread runs out, with- 
out stopping the loom. These two reduce the cost of weaving 
some 50 per cent., and are rapidly coming into general use for 
plain goods. 

GEORGE DRAPER is recorded on this monument as a publicist. 
He was that indeed, and yet probably no other publicist ever 
personally wrote or published so little as he did. It was nearly 
all during the closing years of his life, after he had thrown off 
many business cares, but I do not doubt that if he had not sud- 
denly been taken away in June, 1887, he would have produced 
something far more comprehensive and permanent than the 
newspaper articles and pamphlets upon protection which he 



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had begun to turn out. But he did far more than he could ever 
have done with his own pen. He so impressed upon some of 
his business acquaintances the need of popular education in the 
principles and working of protection, and of the importance of 
continued and permanent work in that direction, that a few 
months before his sudden decease they formed the Home Mar- 
ket Club and he became its first president. The club was char- 
tered under the laws of Massachusetts, and on Mr. DRAPER'S 
suggestion it adopted the motto " American wages for American 
workmen, American markets for the American people; protec- 
tion for American houses". The motto, however, did not cir- 
cumscribe its policy. It has always favored all such trade with 
foreign countries as can be carried on to mutual advantage. 
Though called a " club " it is rather an economic association, 
for it maintains only a business office in Boston, and has no 
social functions except to give annual dinners, and these are 
more educative than social, for they bring together the largest 
gatherings of solid men ever assembled in the United States for 
a similar purpose, and are graced by the presence and oratory 
of the nation's most famous statesmen. The real work of the 
club, however, is upon lines laid down for it by Mr. DRAPER, in 
keeping a bureau of information on every phase of the great 
tariff question, furnishing such information free of cost to all 
inquirers in all parts of the country, and the investigation of 
political science and the disseminating of correct ideas upon 
the same. In fulfilling this last mentioned purpose it has, dur- 
ing the ten years of its existence, circulated throughout this 
country the equivalent of nearly one hundred million pamphlet 
pages of good literature in favor of protection and honest 
money. It is not endowed. It depends entirely upon the vol- 
untary and usually small contributions of its members, but it is 
the largest association of its kind in the world, and it never 
pleads or presses for support. Its monthly journal, The Home 
Market Bulletin, is now found in nearly all the great libraries, 
in the offices of newspapers and of business men, and in the 
houses of mechanics and farmers in almost every State. 

It was in founding that institution that GEORGE DRAPER did 



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the most to earn the title of publicist, and yet whoever reads 
his writings sees that he possessed the qualities which would 
have made him famous had not his work in this line been cut 
off untimely. A few brief extracts will best show the quality 
of his thought and the lucidity and directness of his style. The 
leading free trade organ in New England is the Boston Herald, 
and that paper has continually sought to prejudice the people 
against the " protected industries ". In a letter to the Commer- 
cial Bulletin, Mr. DRAPER made the point that many industries 
enjoy a national protection which is greater than any protection 
which can be afforded by a tariff, and he said : 

" I will mention some wholly protected industries. For one, 
take a daily newspaper, say the Boston Herald. That is more 
completely protected against foreign competition than any article 
can be by custom duties as the laws are administered. The 
ocean is an insuperable barrier to printing any paper in a 
foreign country and sending it to Boston in time to give the 
earliest local as well as general news. Now I claim that the 
publishing of that journal is a wholly protected industry, and 
that any industry which can be interfered with by importations 
from abroad, or which depends upon tariff duties to wholly or 
partially prevent such importations from abroad, is less pro- 
tected than the Boston Herald establishment ". 

Why the wholly protected cryout against protection to others 
in the interests of common prosperity? Let anyone draw the 
lines between the wholly and partially protected industries and 
he will see that those who are not protected by law are better 
protected by natural causes. 

The most dangerous free trade agitation in recent years took 
the form of a demand for free raw materials. Mr. DRAPER was 
one of the first to denounce it to his fellow manufacturers as 
unjust, illogical, and short-sighted. He said, " I am not en- 
gaged in either the manufacture of iron or steel ; but the manu- 
facturing concerns I am largely interested in buy and use 
thousands of tons a year. I do not, for one, desire to have the 
duty reduced on iron and steel, because I believe it is for the 
best interests of the people of this country to keep and supply 



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our own markets for such material ; and when any amount is 
imported, it shows that our manufacturers have no monopoly of 
the business, and that home competition will prevent too high 
prices. Protectionists, or those who want the American market 
for the American people, must stand together or fall separately. 
I have no sympathy for those who want protection for their own 
industry at the expense of other industries as necessary as their 
own. By protecting our own market we promote diversified 
industry, and create and maintain a demand for skilled labor, 
which, in turn, calls for increase in all kinds of labor; and the 
effect of holding our own market, imperfectly, even, has been 
to make this the best market for skilled labor in the world." 

To counteract the evil and dangerous prejudices which polit- 
ical demagogues endeavor to create against capital and to show 
the vast importance of constant and remunerative employment 
for the people, Mr. DRAPER wrote this true and philosophic 
paragraph : 

" Accumulated wealth of the country is certainly a great boon 
in many ways ; but the accumulation of property that is being 
consumed in a given community is vastly more important. 
The day's work of a nation is of vastly more importance to the 
statesman than the accumulated wealth of a country — our 
country, at any rate. I am confident that when business is good 
and the people fully employed, they will earn as much probably 
in two years, certainly in three years, as all the accumulated 
wealth of the country. My experience teaches me that the 
more industrious a nation is, the better educated, the more 
moral and thrifty it will be. If I am right in this, then the prin- 
cipal object of statesmanship should be to so legislate as to pro- 
mote the greatest amount of protective industry among the 
people." 

Mr. DRAPER was not only a worker, a great captain of indus- 
try, an economist and an organizer whose plans work out results 
after he is at rest, but he was a kind-hearted and benevolent man, 
a public spirited citizen and a patriot. He aided his employees 
to acquire beautiful homes of their own. He took pride in his 
village and gave it one of the finest town halls in the common- 



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wealth. Before the civil war he was an abolitionist, a co-worker 
with Garrison and Phillips, with Garrett Smith of New 
York and with ROBERT Purvis of this city, whose death yester- 
day, we mourn to-day. After the war broke out he organized 
and equipped several companies of volunteers, paying their 
early expenses, bestowing gifts upon the men and looking after 
the comfort of their families. Though never accepting office, 
excepting possibly in town affairs, he took an active part in pol- 
itics and sometimes went as a delegate to conventions. He 
held that it was treason to neglect to vote and he never hesitated 
to espouse an unpopular cause if he believed it right. He was 
a total abstainer from liquor and tobacco, a Unitarian in faith, a 
friend of every worthy cause, a noble and strong character, and 
the New England Cotton Manufacturers' Association has done 
the youth of Philadelphia a great service by giving them the 
inspiration of his life in the form of the bronze reminder and it 
is most appropriately placed in this institution of art and textile 
instruction, which is leading the procession in our national 
march to higher industrial success. 

Forever may it remain here as a monument of what personal 
character, high endeavor, and lofty public spirit can do in a 
great free country of unequaled opportunities and of the best 
incentives to real success and the fame of a good influence that 
remains. 



The audience then assembled in the rotunda of the building, 
where the testimonial was unveiled by Mrs. E. D. GlLLESPIE, 
of Philadelphia, on behalf of the Woman's Auxiliary Committee, 
who made an address, largely referring to manufactures among 
her New Pmgland ancestry of five generations ago, and to the 
example and encouragement which would be afforded to the 
students of the school by this testimonial. 

After the ceremonies, those present were conducted through 
the Textile School. 



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The Pennsylvania Museum 

and School of Industrial Art, 

Philadelphia. 



At the meeting of the Executive Committee of the Pennsyl- 
vania Museum and School of Industrial Art, held April 14, 
1898, the following resolution was unanimously adopted : 

Resolved, That the presentation to this institution of a bust of George 
Draper, of Massachusetts, by the members of the New England 
Cotton Manufacturers' Association, indicating, as it does, a desire to 
associate the memory of a distinguished citizen with the work of this 
School of Industrial Art, is gratifying in the extreme. 

Resolved, that the sincere thanks of the Officers and Trustees are 
hereby extended to the members of the above Association for their 
graceful and significant gift. 

DALTON DOW, 

Secretary. 



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